So, if extraterrestrial settlements are unlikely to be ever created regardless of any catastrophe, the point is moot.
I think that the likes of Bostrom would consider anything that would prevent us from establishing extraterrestrial settlements to be a catastrophe itself, even though it’s ‘business as usual’.
Then the ‘catastrophe’ could be quite possibly intrinsic in the laws of physics and the structure of the solar system.
Many are.
So, if extraterrestrial settlements are unlikely to be ever created regardless of any catastrophe, the point is moot.
I think that the likes of Bostrom would consider anything that would prevent us from establishing extraterrestrial settlements to be a catastrophe itself, even though it’s ‘business as usual’.
Then the ‘catastrophe’ could be quite possibly intrinsic in the laws of physics and the structure of the solar system.
Many are.